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(ModeL) C. R. HEIZMANN.

APPLE PARER, OORBR, AND SLIGER. No. 256.214. Patented Apr. 11,1882,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. RAYMOND HEIZMANN, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PENN HARD\VARE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

APPLE PARER, CORER, AND SLICER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,214, dated April 11, 1882. Application filed January 4, 1882. (Model) I To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, O. RAYMOND HEIZMANN, ofReading, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Paring, Goring, and Slicing Apples, of which improvement the following is a specification.

The machine herein described belongs to the class of apple-parers in which the apple hearing shaft is susceptible of certain i'reelongitudinal movements through its hearings toward and from the paring-knife without rotation, as well as the advancing and receding movements regulated by its screw-thread.

My object is to make a substantial machine, which shall be at once simple in form, positive in action, and inexpensive in construction.

I will now proceed to state the nature of my invention, referring to the annexed drawings, in which I Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig.2 a plan, of the same; Fig. 3, a sectional elevation on the line a: a: of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a sectional elevation on the line 3 y of Fig. 1. The other views represent details, Fig.5 being a longitudinal section of the part a of the frame, showing the lever or latch to, slide t, and spring t in elevation; Fig. 6, a front elevation of the core-expeller a and Fig. 7 a crosssection of the same on the line w w of Fig. 6; Fig. 8, a side elevation of the track-bar k,- Fig.9, a section of the same on the line m m of Fig. 8, and Fig. 10 a section of the same on the line 3 y of Fig. 8; Fig. 11, a plan of the slide t, and Fig. 12 a crosssection of the same on the line w m of Fig. 11; Fig. 13, a front elevation of the en gaging-bolt 0, and Fig. 14 a cross-section of the same on the line 00 w of Fig. 13.

a a a is the frame, the top part, c of which is hollow or chambered, as shown in Fig. 4.

b is the paring-knife, which is adjustably secured, as by a screw, to the ordinary upright trough-shaped standard, 0, which has a rotary vibration on a vertical shaft, (not shown,) by which it is attached to the cross arm or stop 01 of the horizontal shaft (1, the latter being surrounded and actuated by the spiral spring 6, all constructed in a well-known form and manner, except that the bearings of the shaft (1, instead of being a part of the frame, as is usual, are attached to the slide 2, hereinafter described.

fis the apple-bearing shaft, which is screwthreaded, as shown, and has the crank g at its rear end, and the fork, consisting of the beveled head h and tines i in one piece, screwed or riveted to the front end of said shaft; f. The shaft f passes through the smooth-bored upright projections and j of the frame.

Ir, Figs. 1 and 8, is a bar which extendsthrough the chamber in the upper part, c of the frame. The forward end of this bar is curved upward in a plane at right angles to its length, the curved portion being recessed or notched, as shown at k in Figs-8 and 9. The bar k has also a downward projection, the foot of which enters the slot in the paring- 6 knife slide t. A track, I, is formed in relief on each face of the bar 70 by cutting away a part of the thickness of the bar, forming notches or depressions m and n at either end of said tracks. The tracks lare beveled at 70 their front ends, as shown in Figs. 1 and 8. The rear end of the track-bar It comes in contact with the crank g.

0, Figs. 1, 2, 13, and 14, is a bolt cored out from top to bottom, as shown in Fig. 13. It 5 is loosely held in an upright position against the flat face of the upright part a of the frame by means of an ordinary undercut stud,p, which projects from the face of the frame and permits said bolt 0 to slide freely up and down thereon. The lug q projects from the top of the bolt 0, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 13. The bolt 0 is proy'ided with projections s and s, which are short segments of screw-threads, that in the operation of the machine are caused to engage the thread of the shaftf.

t, Figs. 1, 2, 5, 11, and 12, is a slide resting on the horizontal part a of the frame. It carries a side appendage, t, which supports the upright bearings t of the paring-knife. provided with the lug t to which one end of the spring t is hooked or attached. It has at its rear end the lug i which is brought into contact with-the under side of the'foot-lug 0 of the engaging-bolt o, and thus keepsthe bolt 5 0 from dropping down into the notches n. It also has the catch it, Figs. 1, 5. t

u, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, is a lever or latch pivoted to the frame at a 1t has a shoulder,

a near its rear end, which is intended toen- 100 It is IO tudinal movement on the fork, controlled by the movement of the track-bar k.

I) is an ordinary coring and slicing knife. When the bolt is down-that is to say, when it is in thisposition-it holds, while the screw-thread segments s and s are disengaged from the thread of shaft f, thelug q in contact with shaft f, which can then be moved freely back and forth through its bearingsin the projectionsj and j withoutrotation. At the completion of the operation of paring an apple the shaft f is drawn back by the operator, the core being held within the fork-tines with sufficient firmness to cause the core-expeller and the track-bar to go back with the shaft until the 2 5 two shoulders at (one on each side of the trackbark) abut against the projections s and s and thus arrest the further withdrawal of the track-bar it, while the fork-shaft is still free to be further drawnback until the beveled head 0 h of the fork comes in contact with the lug q of bolt 0, in which further movement of the shaftf it draws thefork-tines through the coreexpeller and throws out thecore. Then with a little extra force the fork-head h is drawn un- 5 der lug q, raising bolt 0, and lifting the projections s and s above the shoulders a about level with the beveled ends of the tracks 1, freeing the track-bar 7c. The bolt 0 is now upthat is, as shown in Fig. 1being held up by the fork-head, and it an apple be then stuck on the fork, this act presses back the core-expeller on thefork-tines,and also presses back the trackbar k, the foot of the downward projection k of which pulls back the slide t against the action of the spring 25 until the catch passes under and behind the shoulder a of the pivoted lever u, the heavier rear end, a, of which drops, causing the shoulder a to engage the catch 1?", and thus hold the slide 25. While the 0 slide t is held as last described the end t of the slide is underneath the foot-lug 0 of the engaging-bolt 0, and is ready to hold up said bolt 0, which would otherwise drop into the notches a upon the removal of the fork-head from under the lug q. The projections s and s of bolt 0 are now in position to mount the tracks Z, and thus bring the screw-segments s and 8 into position for engaging the screwthread of shaft f when this shaft is pushed 6o forward. The shaft f, bearing the apple, can

v be pushed forward toward the paring-knife without rotation until the thread of this shaft engages the segments 8 and s, from which period until the end of its forward .movement the shaftf is advanced by turning the crank g.

It will be seen that the track-bar 7c is pressed forward by the crank, and-that when the forkhead It has passed the paring-knife b the shoulder k of the projection slides up the incline a of the pivoted lever a, pressing down the lighter end of this lever and disengaging the shoulder a from the catch i of slide it, which by the action of the spring t is then moved forward, carrying the paring-knife with it and causing this knife to press with a following pressure against the rear part of the advancing apple, and thus more effectually pare that part of the apple. The forward movement of the slide t takes this slide from under the footlug 0 of bolt 0, and the shaftf being revolved, the track-bar is pushed forward until the projections s and s reach the notches m, allowing the bolt 0 to drop and break the engagement between the segments 8 and s and-the shaft-thread. and the other above-described operations can then be repeated, and so on indefinitely.

Instead of employing two tracks Z, one on each face of bar It, as above described, and the two corresponding projections, 49 and s and the two screw-segments s and s, but one of such tracks Z may be used, and in such case only the corresponding one of the two projections 8 and s and of segments 8 ands are rcquired. I prefer, however, the form of construction first described, because it secures more freedom of action in the engaging-bolt 0.

I claim- 1. In an apple-parer, the combination of the fork-shaftf, the crank g, the track-bar k, provided with a track, Z, the paring-knife slide t, and engaging-bolt 0 for the purpose of effecting engagement between the said bolt 0 and shaftf, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the fork-shaft f, the track-bar It, with its downward projection 70*, the spring-actuated paring-knife slide t, the said knife being mounted thereon, and the pivoted latch u for giving to the paring-knife a following pressure on the apple, and thus more completely paring the rear part of the apple, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the fork-shaftf, the fork with its beveled head h, the track-bar 7c, provided with a track, I, the bolt 0, and the sliding core-eXpeller a flfor the purpose of clearing the apple-core from the fork, substantially as set forth.

' O. RAYMOND HEIZMANN.

Witnesses:

A. A. HEIZMANN, H. A. ZIEBER.

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